MCH Advanced Practice Provider & Senior Nurse Home Visitor

The Maternal Child Health Advanced Practice Provider & Senior Nurse Home Visitor is a split-funded dual role designed to strengthen integration between maternal-child health, primary care, perinatal services, newborn care, and public health nurse home visiting. In the Senior Nurse Home Visitor role, the staff member provides comprehensive in-home, community-based, and telehealth nursing services to pregnant people, children, and families eligible for NNCC Home Visiting Services on a half-time basis. The Senior Nurse Home Visitor maintains the highest standards of clinical practice, adheres to applicable model fidelity requirements, and upholds the policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards of NNCC and PHMC. This role also supports mentorship, reflective practice, and program improvement efforts that advance a strengths-based, client-centered culture. In the Maternal Child Health (MCH) Advanced Practice Provider role, the staff member provides high-quality comprehensive perinatal, postnatal, and newborn care through PHMC Health, with a focus on services connected to the PREPARE project at Rising Sun Health Center. The provider participates in care delivery, population health tracking, quality improvement, and project design activities intended to improve access to maternal and infant health services and support efforts to address maternal and infant morbidity and mortality. This position requires strong clinical judgment, collaborative practice, flexibility, and a commitment to advancing equitable, trauma-informed, family-centered care.

Responsibilities:

MCH Advanced Practice Provider

• Provide high-quality, comprehensive, patient-centered prenatal, postpartum, and newborn care within the provider’s scope of practice, licensure, credentialing, and privileges.
• Support the implementation and expansion of perinatal, postnatal, and newborn services at Rising Sun Health Center through the PREPARE project.
• Conduct clinical assessments, screenings, health education, counseling, care coordination, referrals, and follow-up to support maternal and infant health outcomes.
• Collaborate with PHMC Health and NNCC leadership, clinical teams, and community partners to support coordinated maternal-child health service delivery.
• Collect, document, and monitor patient data related to preterm birth, birth weight, adherence to recommended visit schedules, and other maternal and infant health indicators identified by the project team.
• Inform population health measures, tracking processes, and reporting structures that support future initiatives addressing maternal and infant mortality, morbidity, and health disparities.
• Help inform the design, implementation, and refinement of PREPARE project workflows, referral pathways, patient engagement strategies, and integration with NNCC Home Visiting Services and PHMC Health.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and complete clinical documentation in the appropriate electronic health record and project-related tracking systems.
• Participate in project meetings, case reviews, grant-related activities, reporting activities, and other assigned responsibilities necessary to support PREPARE implementation and sustainability.

Senior Nurse Home Visitor

• Maintain a part-time caseload of pregnant people and eligible families in accordance with assigned home visiting model requirements, generally ranging from approximately 10 to 13 clients.
• Provide comprehensive in-home, community-based, and telehealth nursing visits on a weekly, semi-weekly, or otherwise model-appropriate basis.
• Deliver client-centered nursing assessment, health education, anticipatory guidance, care coordination, referrals, and support aligned with client goals, program outcomes, and model expectations.
• Build and maintain therapeutic relationships with clients using motivational interviewing, Facilitating Attuned Interactions, reflective practice, trauma-informed care, and strengths-based approaches.
• Maintain timely, accurate, and complete documentation of client services, screenings, assessments, referrals, care coordination, and outcomes in applicable systems, including but not limited to EPIC, Apricot, Penelope, Visit Tracker, or other designated platforms.
• Participate in regular clinical/reflective supervision, team meetings, and joint visits.
• Complete all required model-specific education, continuing education, PHMC compliance training, and role-specific education, including but not limited to breastfeeding, NEAR@Home, motivational interviewing, clinical screenings, and other courses to enhance and protect practice.
• Support the integration of maternal-child health, primary care, and public health nurse home visiting by strengthening communication among home visitors, families, providers, and service systems.
• Provide mentorship, peer support, and clinical insight to other nurse home visitors and contribute to program enhancements, workflow improvements, quality improvement activities, and cross-program collaboration.

Integrated Role Expectations

• Promote coordinated, family-centered care by improving communication, referral pathways, closed-loop follow-up, and continuity of care across NNCC and PHMC Health.
• Use direct service experience from both home visiting and clinical practice to inform program design, workflow development, quality improvement, and implementation of maternal-child health initiatives.
• Support shared learning and collaboration between home visiting staff, health center-based clinical teams, and other interdisciplinary partners.
• Demonstrate flexibility in balancing responsibilities across both roles while meeting expectations for each program.

Work Conditions:

• Flexible schedule, including some early evening and weekend hours, on-site or off-site, as needed
• Provide services in a health center, office, home, or community-based settings
• Light to moderate lifting and transport of program and client materials
• Local to regional travel as required by funders and program-specific models

Skills:

• Strong understanding of maternal-child health, perinatal health, newborn care, family health, public health nursing, and social drivers of health
• Ability to work independently while remaining connected to supervisory, clinical, and programmatic support structures
• Ability to communicate clearly and collaboratively with clients, families, colleagues, supervisors, health care providers, and community partners
• Strong organizational, time management, problem-solving, and follow-through skills
• Ability to balance direct service responsibilities with project implementation, data collection, quality improvement, and cross-program collaboration
• Ability to use electronic health records, documentation systems, communication platforms, and data tracking tools accurately and efficiently
• Strong clinical assessment, care coordination, patient education, documentation, communication, and interdisciplinary collaboration skills
• Preferred: Lactation training, IBCLC certification, bilingual or multilingual skills, and/or prior training in evidence-based home visiting models

Qualifications:

Education, Licensure, and Certification

• Master’s degree or higher in Nursing, Nurse-Midwifery, or a related advanced clinical practice field required
• Licensed or license-eligible in Pennsylvania as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife, or other approved Advanced Practice Provider whose education, certification, and scope of practice align with the clinical responsibilities of the position
• Current and unrestricted Pennsylvania licensure as a Certified Registered Nurse Practitioner, Certified Nurse Midwife, or other approved Advanced Practice Provider required
• Current board certification in the candidate’s advanced practice specialty required
• Current Pennsylvania prescriptive authority, credentialing, and clinical privileges required, or ability to obtain them before providing billable clinical services

Experience

• Minimum of five years of clinical experience in maternal-child health, perinatal care, newborn care, pediatrics, family practice, public health nursing, community health, home visiting, or a closely related field
• Expertise in public health nursing home visitation models and preventive health initiatives
• Demonstrated experience providing trauma-informed, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and family-centered care

Other

• A valid and current driver’s license, access to reliable transportation, and automobile insurance are required to provide home visiting services to families throughout Philadelphia.

PHMC is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer.